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Lauren Foster

Lauren Foster is managing editor of Enterprising Investor and co-lead of CFA Institute’s Women in Investment Management initiative. Previously, she worked as a freelance writer for Barron’s and the Financial Times. Prior to her freelance work, Foster spent nearly a decade on staff at the FT as a reporter and editor based in the New York bureau. Foster holds a BA in political science from the University of Cape Town, and an MS in journalism from Columbia University.

“We all have a responsibility to fill the pipeline.” Lauren Foster lists this point and other curated content from the 2016 CFA Institute Alpha and Gender Diversity: The Competitive Edge conference. Read more

The Human Cell Atlas, The Art of Rivalry, cocktail nuggets, and “the pre-eminent spy writer of the 20th century” are among the subjects explored in the latest Weekend Reads from Lauren Foster. Read more

So what is it that makes one team “smarter” than another? Anita Williams Woolley believes it’s collective intelligence. A key component of collective intelligence is social perceptiveness. and it turns out women tend to be better at that than men. So when constructing teams, be sure to include more women. Read more

Television in South Africa, “living-in-the-web,” how US politics got so insane, and “What Happens in the Brain When We Misremember,” are among the topics covered in the latest Weekend Reads from Lauren Foster. Read more

“The economy and understanding economics and the way business is done has lifted billions of people out of poverty. If you want to impact the world, finance is a great place to do it,” said Rebecca Terner Lechtner, in an entry from the latest Weekend Reads from Lauren Foster. Read more

Why do bronze medalists tend to be happier than their silver counterparts? While it may sound counterintuitive, it has to do with something known in psychology circles as “counterfactual thinking.” That same sort of counterfactual thinking influences investment decision making as well, Lauren Foster reports. Read more

When it comes to retirement planning, it’s important to take into account that women tend to have shorter work careers, earn less, live longer than men, and have less tolerance for risk, says Diane Garnick, CFA. Which is why it’s essential to understand that “averages just aren’t going to work.” Read more

Despite the euphoria in the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump camps, there remains a great deal of uncertainty about the outcome of this election and what it will mean for the United States and the country’s standing on the world stage. This uncertainty extends to the effect of US elections on stock prices, judging by the voluminous and often contradictory research on the topic. Read more